nursery rhyme readers humpty dumpty

During Reading The first time through, read the nursery rhyme aloud from beginning to end to let children hear the rhyme, enjoy it, and get a feel for the language.. After Reading Help c

Dumpty

Illustrated by Carolina Farías

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Nursery Rhyme

Humpty Dumpty

sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty

had a great fall.

All the King’s horses

and all the King’s men

could not put Humpty together again.

Teaching Tips

To enhance children’s reading experiences, use these tips

as you introduce and share the Nursery Rhyme Readers.

Before Reading

Show the cover of the book and read aloud the title

Have children comment on the cover illustration and tell what they know about the nursery rhyme Since nursery rhymes often contain unfamiliar vocabulary, skim the book and introduce any vocabulary that will help

children’s understanding of the story For example, for Little Miss Muffet, discuss tuffet, curds, and whey

During Reading

The first time through, read the nursery rhyme aloud from beginning to end to let children hear the rhyme, enjoy it, and get a feel for the language On subsequent readings, help engage children in the reading process by following these suggestions

L Model reading for children by tracking a line of print from left to right, turning the pages, and using picture clues Invite children to comment on the illustrations on each page

L Reread the story, asking children to listen for words that rhyme Then read aloud again, this time stopping at words that rhyme and letting children chime in on them Next, invite children to join

in for a shared reading, pointing to each word as you read it

L Model strategies for decoding words, such as finding beginning sounds, using picture clues, and

sounding out words

L Point out punctuation and capital letters Discuss what symbols such as periods, commas, questions marks, and exclamation marks mean, and how they affect the reading of the rhyme

L Invite children to clap their hands along with you to the rhythm of the rhyme as you read aloud

After Reading

Help children respond to the nursery rhyme by following these suggestions

L Ask questions to check for understanding For example, after reading

Humpty Dumpty, ask questions such as: What happened to Humpty when he fell? Who tried to help Humpty after he fell? Why couldn’t the king’s horses and men put Humpty back together?

L Ask children if they liked the rhyme, and what they liked most or least

Have them retell the rhyme in their own words

Using the Reproducible Nursery Rhyme Pages

After reading a nursery rhyme several times, give children a copy of the nursery

rhyme reproducible to use for independent reading, for reading in pairs or groups,

for classroom activities, and for sharing with family members These pages are a great way to encourage repeated readings, develop fluency, and

to do specific skill work

Have children make a folder of the nursery rhyme pages Provide a blank folder for children to title “My Nursery Rhymes,” and let them decorate

it Have them insert the nursery rhymes as they read them They can also keep the Nursery Rhyme

Reader Log in the folder, as well as activity

sheets that they complete Let children take home the folder to share with family members from time to time

Have children follow along as you read the rhyme, tracking the print as you read Ask them to underline or circle

the rhyming words on their sheet Also use the pages to have children

identify specific letters, words with specific consonants, blends, vowel

patterns, phonograms, and sight words (You might wish to enlarge one copy

of the rhyme and place it on an easel for children to see.)

Some of the lesson pages have specific suggestions for using the reproducible

versions of the nursery rhymes

Using the Lesson Pages and Reproducible

Activity Pages

For each Nursery Rhyme Reader, use the activities on the lesson page found in

this teaching guide to delve further into the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics,

comprehension, vocabulary, reading, and writing Each nursery rhyme includes a

reproducible activity page specific to it Spread the lesson and activities for each

rhyme over several days

Mary Had a

Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb

with fleece as white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went,

the lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school

one day,

which was against the rule.

It made the children laugh and

play to see a lamb at school.

Name _

Mary Had a Little Lamb Write Your Own Story!

Mary’s lamb followed her _ What happened? _ _

to soccer practice

It got the ball and butted it into the goal.

Jack

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Humpty

Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty

sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty

had a great fall.

All the King’s horses

and all the King’s men

could not put Humpty

together again.

Humpty Dumpty

Learning With the Nursery Rhyme

See pages 6–7 for suggested ways to read and share the book with children Then focus on the

following activities

A New Name for Humpty Dumpty Say aloud the word Humpty in parts: /h/…umpty Have

children blend the word Have children blend the word Dumpty the same way Tell children that the

words rhyme because they sound the same at the end They both end with umpty Show children how

you can make another word that rhymes by changing the first sound—for example, you can change

/d/ to /b/ and make Bumpty Invite children to say Humpty Bumpty Then ask them to change Humpty

Dumpty’s name again by changing the first sound in Bumpty, for example, Humpty Mumpty Children

can also make up new names that rhyme, such as Higgy Piggy, Lucky Bucky, or Hacky Packy Make a list of

these silly rhyming names and have children recite the nursery rhyme with the new names

Short /a/ Wordplay Say aloud the following words from the rhyme: sat, put, had Ask children:

Which two words have the same middle sound? Orally segment the words so that children can listen for the

short /a/ sound in sat and had: (/s/ /a/ /t/, /h/ /a/ /d/) Then, reread the rhyme slowly, asking children

to find another word with the short /a/ sound (and) Play a game in which you slowly recite a list of

one-syllable words and children cheer “Yay!” when they hear the short /a/ sound

All in the Family Write the word family –all on the chalkboard or on chart paper Say:

“The letters a-l-l make the /all/ sound.” Distribute the reproducible version of the nursery

rhyme Have children find and circle the words with this pattern (wall, fall, All, all) and

then generate a list of other words that rhyme Copy, cut out, and distribute the broken egg

templates on page 34 Instruct children to complete the eggs by writing an onset (beginning

sound) and rime (vowel and letters that follow) on each half of the egg for words in the –all

family, such as ball, call, hall, mall, and tall Have children take apart the eggs and then put them

back together, reading the words Use the eggs for other word families as well

It’s a Story! Create a graphic organizer on chart paper by drawing a large egg shape and

dividing it into three horizontal sections Label the sections “Beginning,” “Middle,” and

“Ending.” Read the label of each section, explaining that stories have these three parts Invite

children to complete the organizer by retelling the events in their own words Prompt them

with the questions below

What happened at the beginning? (Humpty Dumpty was sitting on a wall.)

What happened next? (Humpty fell off the wall and broke.)

What happened at the end? (The king’s horses and men tried to fix him but they couldn’t.)

Now focus on the ending Say: “Poor Humpty! He’s still broken!” Ask children to help Humpty by

creating new endings to the story that would solve Humpty’s problem

Punctuation Pointer Explain the use of the apostrophe in the word King’s Have children replace

horses and men in the text with other things that could belong to the king.

b

all

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